Elisabeth Maria Adelheid Dobrà ¾enský von Dobrà ¾enitz (also Dobrzensky de Dobrzenicz; ; 7 December 1875 â 11 June 1951) was a Bohemian noblewoman whose marriage to the son of the former heiress to the throne of Brazil prompted renunciation of his claim to the abolished monarchy's throne.
Born in the ChotÃÂboà  castle, family estate of an old Bohemian noble family, Elisabeth Maria Adelheid was the fourth child and only daughter of Johann Wenzel, Count Dobrà ¾enský of Dobrà ¾enicz (1841âÂÂ1919) and his wife, Countess Elisabeth Kottulinsky, Baroness of Kottulin and Krzizkowitz (1850âÂÂ1929).
She had three elder brothers Jan, Otokar and Jaroslav and a younger brother named Karl Kunata. Karl Kunata renamed himself to Count Kottulinský, like his maternal family, in Austria in 1905; late in 1912, he married Countess Maria Theresia von Meran (1893-1981), member of a morganatic branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.
Elisabeth married Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará on 14 November 1908 at Versailles. He had previously renounced his hereditary claim to the crown of Brazil because she was not of royal birth. They had five children:
Elisabeth died on 11 June 1951, in Sintra, Portugal, aged 75. She was buried alongside her husband, Pedro de Alcântara in the Cathedral of Petrópolis.